San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-07-07
The Queens Jubilee.
THE Standard, N. VI

The exhibition of sycophancy ant
fetch worship which has taken plac'
in Great Britain this week is spect
acle for gods and men. 1t is dole
full commentary upon the advance o.
civilization and the diffusion of edu
cation that in almost the last decade
of the nineteenth century the great
body of the English people (t would
be unfair to suppose that there are
not many Englishmen to whom all
this is utterly disgusting) should &C
into a spasm of adulation over wo
man of whom the very best that can
truthfully be said is that she has
never fagrantly outraged any of the
obvious proprieties of life.
Victoria Guelph is, as well as her
personality can be got at, greedy,
grasping, narrow-minded, common
place woman, who never did useful
thing in her life unless to serve the
purpose of legal fiction that might
just as well have been served by q
wax figure from Madame Tnssand's
show. Yet q great people hasten to
PROSTATE themselves before her, and
to thank her with honors that fall lit
tie short of alteration for having per-
mitted them 80 long to support her
and her family; and rejoice over the
fftieth anniversary of her accession
to the position of royal fgurehead rs
though it marked some great national
deliverance.
The crown in England has ceased
to exert any real political power It
is now but figurehead. But it is the
fgurehead of a social and political
system which divides men into orders
almost as distinctly marked as Hin
doc castes, and crushes the vast mass
into poverty and pauperism that
class of idlers may live luxuriously on
wealth they do nothing to produce.
The slavish adulation of human be- /
ing who, without ever having done a
stroke of work in her whole life, has
become, by virtue of taxes wrung
from the hard hands of labor, the
richest woman in the world, is in
reality an apotheosis of the system
which keeps the millions of England
IN the verge of starvation that
avored ten thousand may enjoy lux
lrious idleness. This abject pros
ration of a great nation before
luman fetch does not show the sur
rival Of ancient superstition 80 much
ls the presence of on active living
orce, which is busy TO day inculcat-
ng the worship of power and wealth, h
rom an instructive perception that
n this way that the many can be
most easily held in subjection to the
ew. The English throne is the cap
tone of q social pyramid of many
anks, each of which is interested in
Ibasing itself before those who are
bove, in order that it may in return
njoy the abasement Of those who
re below. And in inculcating this
abit OF serviity, in accustoming the
'ublic mind to look upon the useless ,
ncumbent of a throne as a gracious !
and in confounding ideas I
( duty and patriotism with personal
eviction TO a family, no class is so
ctive and so efficient as the pro-
sssed ministers Of Christ II this
eathenish alteration Of human ere
1re prevails in Great Britain. II Is
OF in despite Of what is called !
bat because it is a vital
art Of what is taught to the people 2
; Christianity. Christ, according to o
be religion that is taughtin England
u Christianity. Is not the friend and
eliverer Of the poor, but the patron
the rich- he is guardian Of
ame preserves s7d mining royalties
ID city grOuEd rebts protector Of
y smuyly respectable EhO ncugd-